Even the Chinese are aghast at their latest innovation – walnuts with tooth cracking cement fillings have apparently been recovered, the effort and cost of obtaining real nuts seemingly being greater than the trouble of making convincing fakes.

According to reports, the walnuts were on sale in a Henan province market, and consisted of a cement kernel with the outer shell glued on. The cement was wrapped in paper so as to prevent the “nut” from rattling suspiciously.

Seriously wonder if the amount of money was worth it, I mean you need to gather cement chunks, scrap paper and walnut shells and glue that shit together and then turn around and sell it. Just seems like with the time spent doing all that the people involved could of just gotten a terrible job making ipods like the rest of china.

The Chinese sure are a funny lot with the extremes they’ll go to make an extra yuan.
Most people would not consider it worth the effort to glue pieces of concrete in walnut shells haves to make weighted extenders to add to bags of walnuts heavier.
I’m surprised they didn’t use lead since it’s even denser.
I swear the Ferengi from DS9 must have been partly based off Chinese merchants.

as one anon mentioned this fake walnuts are probably mixed in as “EXTENDERS” with the real walnuts to CHEAT weighing scales since their cement fillings are probably heavier.

The list goes on and on for products from china that have “EXTENDERS” to give maximum profit – INFANT MILK mixed with melamine(plastic ingredient) , FRUITS treated with carcinogenic chemicals, SQUID/CUTTLEFISH with formaldehyde, SOY SAUCE made from human hair. etc. etc. NOT TO MENTION ALL THE EXPLODING STUFF.

WHAT A JOKE OF A COUNTRY. My guess is that all the good Chinese already left the mainland and setup the numerous “chinatowns” in the free/democratic countries.

There are many things we are privilaged with that many third world countries lack. We don’t have the worry of “all or nothing” to just survive compared to the third worlders. It’s also probably why we are one of the most hypocritical yet double standardised sentients on Earth…

Nope, anon is right, in some way Chinesetowns are all set up by Taiwanese, if one meant Republic of China. Most China town is still flying the white sun and blue sky flags anyways, and there are reports that Chinese Communist Party is sending spies to infinite old Chinese groups so their communist flags can replace the Republic flag.

In all reality, People from PRC could achieve much if they don’t focus on stupid things (trying to convert Chinatown into communist) like this. It seems like they got their orders all messed up to them, to them, they want to make a train just so it is fast but they don’t give a shit if people will died on the way (a train that cannot carry people). Or in this case, they make walnuts that can sell but yet still cannot feed people. They are all simply following the logic of Mao Zedong, who want nukes even if all of Chinese in mainland China died of Starvation.

wrong again, Chinatowns are set up by the Taiwanese. High quality exported mainland Chinese just integrate into western society and totally suck at banding together to achieve a common goal. However they are more than likely to be the top 1% as they occupy the high paying job brackets.

I DON’T THINK SO, in my opinion while there may be a lot of Taiwanese in these Chinatowns, the mainland Chinese people have more reason to leave their country for a more free country. Remember MAINLAND CHINA = Communist, TAIWAN = democratic.

“A Chinatown is an ethnic enclave of expatriate Chinese people, although it is often generalized to include various Southeast Asian people…
Taishanese people and Cantonese settled in the first North America, Australian, and Latin American Chinatowns.”

Im traveling atm, but never seen shit like that. I just think thats some joke what people have made. I still find it funny i mean LOT of funny that 4chan or what ever are updating these news have never been out of their country as lot of people of comments. Still. Thanks for good laught 4chan of reminding me of ignorant and funny/stupid people of the world. Cracks me up everytime when i read comment section of these topics.

It makes perfect sense:
1. Nuts are usually sold by the pound/kilo.
2. Have a friend at a food establishment/factory provide shells (discarded waste)
3. Get some cement
4. Make the cement nuts
5. Mix in some real nuts
6. Rack in the $$ as few cement nuts rapidly fill up to a kilo
7. ????
8. PROFIT!

So true anon…and people still die of cancer left and right from eating bleached, salted, deep-fried, hydrogenated “food” their entire life that’s “good” for them.

The average hamburger that you can get from Wendy’s is a sad blasphemy of anything that might be food. Iceberg lettuce is like lettuce, tomatoes have been inbred to a point of collapse, nothing in that bun even resembles grain anymore, and the animals in it have lead cruel and torturous lives.

Yet you want unpasteurized milk from a cow that like…actually lived in a field? LOL NO.

The FDA has a proclivity to prevent buyers from getting what THEY want. Because the FDA knows better. I don’t want rotten meat, FDA has regs for that, FDA good. I want raw milk or the latest in pharmaceuticals, FDA has regs against that, FDA bad. Actual Republicans should be against government OVER-REACH.

yeah thanks to that way of thinking we are currently experiencing the collapse of western civilization.
it’s indeed a very intelligent way of making profit, unless you consider the risk of getting caught by a costumer who is either violent, or even trigger happy, and willing to settle the score without getting the authorities involved.

Though jokes aside, they actually recycle quite alot…of our trash anyway. Dunno about the States but I know they recycle something like 60-65% of our trash here in UK and around 30-40% of the worlds trash from what I remember on the BBC.

Kinda ironic though that when we do complain about pollution from other countries, we’re generally the source of pollution in other countries…

Brilliant business. The culprit could be an employee of a nut wholesaler, who pilfered empty nutshells after the kernels were packed for sale. Scrap concrete is readily available. Add cheap glue and old paper, and the rest of sheer profit. Walnuts carry a good price per kilogram.